The incident has been commemorated by Irish band, U2, in their 1983 protest song " Sunday Bloody Sunday ".

* In their 1997 album Pop, U2 cites Father Christmas in the song " If God Will Send His Angels ".

Smoothing the edges of their style in the direction of New Wave, several post-punk bands such as New Order ( descended from Joy Division ), The Cure, and U2 crossed over to a mainstream U. S. audience.

They then embarked on an uncomfortable tour supporting U2 on their Zoo TV tour in 1992.

The halftime show featured a three-song set from Irish rockers U2, who had just completed their successful Elevation Tour.

* March 9 – The Irish rock band U2 releases their studio album The Joshua Tree.

As a producer he has worked with U2 ( on their War album ), Van Morrison, Kate Bush, The Dubliners, Planxty, Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane, Patrick Street, Stockton's Wing and fellow Limerickman Richard Harris.

U2 also performed at Kenan on the first American date of their 1983 War Tour, where Bono famously climbed up to the top of the stage, during pouring rain and lightning, holding up a white flag for peace.

Unfortunately for The 77s, labelmates U2 found a great deal of success with their Joshua Tree album, thus distracting Island Records ' attention from promoting what many fans consider The 77s ' best album of their career.

U2 performed at the stadium during their Zoo TV Tour on September 20, 1992.

SST's reputation was damaged severely when sound collage group Negativland fought a long legal battle with SST in the wake of its sampling lawsuit over their notorious " cover " of U2's hit " I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For ", on the 1991 U2 single.

* June 4 – U2 appears on the Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder, their first U. S. television appearance.

* February 28 – U2 releases their 3rd album War which debuts at # 1 in the UK and produces the band's first international hit single.

It was announced that Kravitz would be supporting U2 on their 360 Tour on the second North American leg in 2010.

Paul McGuinness is the main shareholder and founder of Principle Management Limited: an artist management company based in Dublin, Ireland, which has managed U2 from the start of their successful career.

In 1992, when U2 released their song " Even Better Than the Real Thing ", the Perfecto remix reached a higher charted position than the original song.

In 1993 with the success of his last remix as Perfecto, he was hired by U2 to provide the warm-up sonics to their Zoo TV world tour, and replaced BP Fallon on the 1993 legs in Europe and Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, with more than fifty shows in Zooropa ' 93 and Zoomerang from 7 May to 10 December of the same year.

It toured alongside U2 as part of the Zooropa tour in 1993 and, with their sister company Macteo, simultaneously rang in the new millennium in three different cities: Galway ( Eyre Square ), Dublin ( Merrion Square ) and New York ( Times Square ).

Camp Nou was host when U2 played in Barcelona on their 360 ° Tour.

The lead singer of U2, Bono, explained that they had started their tour in Camp Nou since “ This is where we wanted to build a space station, designed by Gaudi in the capital of surrealism.

Some of the cast made an appearance on Comic Relief's Red Nose Day 2003, in which they find a suitcase full of money in a Miami hotel room and assume it belongs to a drug dealer who wants to shoot them-but actually it belongs to U2, who invite them to their penthouse.

* U2 came to the dome during their PopMart Tour on October 29, 1997, with opening band Smash Mouth.

Rock band U2 uses a photograph by David Wojnarowicz of a Buffalo Jump on the cover of their 1992 single " One ".

U2 performed during their 360 ° Tour on July 14, 2011, with Interpol as their opening act.

Live music is popularly played on streets and at venues throughout Dublin in general, and the city has produced several musicians and groups of international success, including U2, one member of Westlife, The Dubliners, The Thrills, Horslips, Jedward, The Boomtown Rats, Boyzone, Ronan Keating, Thin Lizzy, Paddy Casey, Sinéad O ' Connor, The Script and My Bloody Valentine.

* U2 Tower, Dublin, Ireland ( 2008 – 2011 ) ( competition won ) ( construction postponed )

* September 25 – The Irish rock band U2 is formed after drummer Larry Mullen Jr. posts a note seeking members for a band on the notice board of his Dublin school.

Following tours by the first wave of punk musicians in the British Isles in the mid-1970s, the post-punk band U2 was formed in Dublin, Ireland.

Some of those who attended the unveiling include The Edge of U2 and the Lord Mayor of Dublin.

The bridge, in a raised state, features as the entry point to Dublin in the video for the song " Pride ( In The Name Of Love )" by U2.

Another rock concert took place on 1 July 1987 when Irish rock band U2 played to a packed house as part of the Joshua Tree Tour, supported by World Party, The Fall, The Mission and The Pretenders, Lead singer Bono said during the gig of kids in Dublin City talking with stars in their eyes about Leeds United, " I didn't myself but, ... you know ...".

* September 25-The band U2 is formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, Dublin.

There are currently three buildings in planning that would eclipse the country's current tallest building record – held by Cork County Hall in Cork – these include the U2 Building, Players Mill and The Tall Building all of them in Dublin.

Throughout their career U2 have kept their base firmly planted in their home town, Dublin, although they avoid paying taxes in Ireland.

They, along with Republic of Loose, opened for U2 in Croke Park in Dublin on 25 July 2009.

The Rocha family keep a second home in the South of France, at St Jean Cap-Ferrat, in an area popular with other wealthy Irish friends, including Bono, the lead singer of Dublin rock band, U2.

The Bravery went on to support other European dates for U2 including a sold out 90, 000 capacity Croke Park concert in Dublin on June 27.

In 2005 Heffernan was granted the Freedom of the City of Dublin, placing him in a pantheon that includes U2, Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton.

Windmill Lane Studios, also known as the " U2 studio ", is a three-storey music recording studio located in Dublin, Ireland.

Patrick ( Pat ) McCarthy is a record producer from Dublin, Ireland who has worked for several rock and alternative rock artists, including The Waterboys, Counting Crows, R. E. M., and U2.

The band recruited Eamo Doyle as lead singer, but as drummer Alan said on the Made In Dublin DVD " it was like U2 trying to go on without Bono ... it was just never going to work ".

The first ideas for Zoo TV emerged during the Lovetown Tour in 1989, when various aspects of radio programming intrigued U2, particularly the large radio audience their Dublin concerts reached.

Back in Ireland, he met Bono and U2 at the Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, and he began his career filming several music videos and the documentaries U2: Unforgettable Fire ( 1984 ) and U2: Outside It's America ( 1987 ) for the group.

U2 broke Irish box office marks with ticket sales for three Croke Park concerts in Dublin, after more than 240, 000 tickets were sold in record time.